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I am a new chicken owner, with three Rhode Island Reds and three Barred Plymouth Rocks, all just over three months old. Are there kitchen scraps/vegetables which should not be given to the chickens (other than meat products)?

I opted this year to get vaccinated chicks (coccidiosis and Marek's) and and if you feed vaccinated chicks medicated feed it will invalidate their vaccines. This year I have had the healthiest chicks *ever* by doing that. At 3 months old I had some cockerels that were TWICE the size of chickens that were 3 weeks older than them.

Re: kitchen scraps:

I've been told not to give them strong flavored foods. Also not to feed them avocado unless you can *guaranteed* that the seed covering (from the pit) didn't somehow contaminate it because there is a substance in the pit that can be deadly to chickens.

SUZANF
Score:3BEN LOMOND, CA
This is our 2nd batch of broilers, and the first for us on our own.

I'm confused. Does McMurray offer the coccidiosis? All I saw was the Marek's. And I chose to vaccinate with/for marek's and am now feeding non-medicated organic chick starter 24% to the jumbo cornish cross. What is recommended? The chicks are now 4 days old.

Hello This was my 4th season of raising broilers & we do not feed medicated feed at all, just broiler starter & grower also you can feed turkey grower/wild game feed crack corn also so you have choice. The birds are very tasty.

SUZANF
Score:3BEN LOMOND, CA
This is our 2nd batch of broilers, and the first for us on our own.

Thanks. We are feeding game/turkey crumble organic non-medicated 24% with added vitamins. And we have a few pasty looking bottoms, nothing closed up but we are washing as we see them with water when the day warms up.

chickens have a natural built in sensor and will not eat anything that will hurt them, they love table scraps. You should cut a watermelon in half length wise and man o man, I eat the heart out and put the whole half on the ground afterwards and they dig it. Also lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, they love it all